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Today NASA will attempt its eighth successful landing of a robot on the red planet by venturing to place its InSight lander—a spacecraft almost 10 years and nearly one billion dollars in the making—as gently as possible on the vast planes of Mars’ Elysium Planitia. But a soft touchdown is ...

Just as spacesuits help astronauts survive in inhospitable environments, newly developed “spacesuits” for bacteria allow them to survive in environments that would otherwise kill them. University of California, Berkeley, chemists developed the protective suits to extend the bacteria’s lifespan in a unique system that pairs live bacteria with light-absorbing semiconductors ...

Typhoon Mangkhut struck the Philippines early Saturday, after thousands of people evacuated their homes to dodge the 550-mile-wide storm as it roared across the Pacific. Eight hours after landfall, there were no reports of casualties or major damage, but some places could not be contacted because of power and communication ...

Right Now: President Trump is back home after meeting in Finland with President Vladimir V. Putin. The president’s trip to Europe is over. The head-scratching? Hardly. Mr. Trump closed out a trip that began with a NATO summit in Brussels with a meeting with Mr. Putin. Afterward, the men held ...

Thai Cave Rescue Live Updates: 8th Person Is Out Video A harrowing operation is underway to rescue a group of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.Published OnJuly 8, 2018CreditImage by Lillian Suwanrumpha/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By The New York Times July 9, 2018 ...

Amazon Tightens Grip on a New Medium: Live Streams of Video Games Image DrLupo, a popular host on Twitch, the game-streaming site owned by Amazon, playing Fortnite Battle Royale. Commenters weighed in on a chat scroll on the right side of the screen. By John Herrman June 17, 2018 Late ...

Right Now: Trump and Kim bring in advisers after private meeting. President Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first-ever meeting between leaders of their two countries on Tuesday morning in Singapore, getting together initially without any aides as they tried to end seven decades of hostility and ...

More than a decade ago, researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge began recruiting young, healthy Louisianans to voluntarily go hungry for two years. In addition to cutting their daily calories by 25 percent, the dozens who enrolled also agreed to a weekly battery of tests; blood ...

Advertisement • Last year’s Super Bowl featured several ads that were political in nature. This year, companies have been focusing more on humor and nostalgia. • An ad for the automaker Ram that used a Martin Luther King Jr. speech drew criticism online. • Cindy Crawford, Peter Dinklage, Morgan Freeman ...

As Carl Sagan once said, “We are made of star stuff.” And so is everything in the universe. When a star explodes, it leaves behind traces that can tell you about its elemental makeup, and Cassiopeia A is a great example of those supernova remnants. The Chandra X-ray observatory snapped ...